It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a f…

- Hortense Odlum

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business exp…

- Hortense Odlum

With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our indivi…

- Hortense Odlum

Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid…

- Hortense Odlum

Adventure, without it, why live?

- Hortense Odlum

A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization …

- Hortense Odlum

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

- Hortense Odlum

The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the c…

- Hortense Odlum

This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without cons…

- Hortense Odlum